A fast paced lesson that focuses on language analysis and justification of responses both verbally and written. Pupils are asked to justify their top 5 songs choices should they be marooned on the island as the boys are, a short cloze procedure allows pupils to recap on the first four chapters before language analysis commences with a clear and thorough example provided to guide pupils. This worked really well with my middle ability year 10s who can, on occasion, struggle to support their thoughts and ideas but were given lots more confidence to do so after the thought provoking starter. Al resources are included on the PowerPoint itself.

This lesson focuses on a scene from stave 3 where the Ghost of Christmas Present introduces Scrooge to the entire Cratchit family. Pupils are encouraged to consider their own associations with Christmas, complete a quick fire round of questions that can be used in a speed dating fashion before empathising with one of the Cratchits by completing a diary entry from their perspective.

An action packed creative writing lesson - which could easily be used across two lessons! All you need are some pegs and string to create the washing line and everything else is provided! Pupils are challenged to develop their use of higher level vocabulary, incorporation of language techniques and planning skills. A handy peer-assessment grid also helps to ease teacher marking!

A handy revision guide to help pupil track the main characters and their individual development through the narrative. Has worked really well with a range of year 10 and 11 classes I teach as they can contain all their notes on the main characters in one place an easily track their progression.

An engaging lesson which lets pupil lead their own learning! Pupils work in small groups to develop and hone their questioning skills through the use of a group challenge, a reading of chapter three of Jane Eyre and the composition of a range of questions using a handy adaptation of Bloom's Taxonomy. Lots of opportunity for group and whole class discussions in this lesson! All resources included!

Inspire by Bloom's Taxonomy! A handy pupil friendly Bloom's Taxonomy guide is included to help pupils develop their questioning and can easily be adapted to any section of the text or even another text altogether! I've used this lesson format on a number of different texts and it works every time, saving teacher input and also cutting marking by allowing pupils to respond to their peers' questions!

A lesson that explores the complexities of Ralph and Piggy's friendship. Pupils are engaged in a wide variety of activities which help them to explore an extract and what it reveals about these key characters independently before completing an initial piece of analysis on Piggy and Ralph. Pupils later complete a PEEZL paragraph plan which is then swapped with another member of the class thus testing their planning skills.

A lesson that explores how to use personification in fiction writing. A short starter activity allows pupils the opportunity to explore various methods of including personification in their writing. Pupils are then given the opportunity to choose from a selection of items to personify. Includes a worked example to help assist pupils. The lesson culminates in a peer assessment activity to reduce teacher marking!

A lesson that explores the select and retrieve skills essential for WJEC Fiction Reading paper. The lesson was delivered successfully to a middle ability year 9 class who enjoyed the exploration of a different culture, consideration of African proverbs and development of key exam skills needed to gain confidence before tackling the more challenging questions later in the paper.

This lesson helped my middle ability year 9 class to consider their observation skills in exploring a 5 mark mood and atmosphere style question from the WJEC fiction reading paper. The lesson developed to build pupils' confidence with a text we had previously explored for select and retrieve questions by building the layers of their response through discussion, embedding quotations and 'walking through' the extract. The brief sample response at the end of the PowerPoint provided further reassurance to pupils who felt the task was more difficult than they could manage by highlighting strengths of the response and illustrating how the embedded quotations they had previously selected could be used as a starting point to a more developed response.

This lesson allowed my middle ability year 9 students to begin to display their own personal responses towards a text whilst also tracking through an extract. The lesson encourages students to deal with the entirety of the extract and provides examples for those who find this activity particularly challenging.

This lesson helped my middle ability year 9 class to gain confidence in deciphering the significance of symbols, familiarising themselves with unseen texts and understanding how to go about tracking the narrator's shifts in attitude throughout the text. The work with the emojis proved extremely helpful for pupils and saw them explore a wider range of attitudes than I have ever previously noted - it also provoked quite a unique opportunity for dialogue to arise between the pupils too.

This lesson worked really well with my high ability year 7 group and gained some excellent feedback following an observation. The lesson explores the real life tragedy that struck Jean-Dominique Bauby and uses this to challenge pupils to consider their communication skills. The lesson is carefully chunked with short amounts of time allocated to each activity to extend the challenge further. It also provided some great opportunities for SMSC links to be made in class too.

This lesson helped my middle ability year 9 students to consolidate their knowledge of the importance of observation skills, select and retrieve skills and embedding quotations. In addition to this, it also developed their confidence with higher level vocabulary and allowed them the opportunity to consider what key vocabulary means within its specific context.

This lesson challenged my middle ability year 9 pupils to consider connotations, select and retrieve information in a set amount of time and identify key moments from across a text. This worked well to consolidate some of those important reading skills we had been working on as we familiarised ourselves with the WJEC Fiction Reading paper format while also allowing them so additional creativity as the term drew to a close.

This lesson was delivered to my middle ability year 11 class as they were preparing for their GCSEs and it focused on consolidating their knowledge of the WJEC Poetry Anthology having studied the entire collection in years 10 and 11. This lesson proved successful as it suited the desires of the class, who in the final few weeks, sought ways to revise the literature course whilst also having the opportunity to challenge themselves through conversing with others. As the end of the lesson, all pupils had a completed jigsaw linking the 18 poems together under one of the headings of content, context, language and structure. The three other members of their team completed the other headings and pupils could photograph one another's work for a handy revision tool. The same lesson could easily be adapted to other poetry collections or be used for characters or themes/symbols in other texts.

This lesson was used to consolidate my middle ability year 11 students' knowledge of the WJEC Poetry Anthology as they prepared for their GCSEs. Having studied the entire poetry selection over years 10 and 11, the pupils wanted to revise the entire selection whilst also tackling planning and preparing for the essay style question. A quick visual starter using imagery associated with the poetry provoked pupils to consider the key symbols prevalent in the poems before they worked in groups to create exam style questions and plan together. The challenge was then increased when the pupils were tasked with choosing two of the poems at random and creating an individual response linking the two poems together.

An introductory lesson enabling pupils to explore dystopian literature through a range of activities that appeal to a range of different learners.

A recap lesson of the three AOs (content, language and structure and context) in relation to the theme of love and relationships in Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy, She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron and Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett-Browning.

In depth analysis of the poem, She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron. All resources included.